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Demonstrations took place in Trishal, Sylhet, Netrokona, Barisal and Mymensingh on Thursday demanding the cancellation of the decision to postpone the ongoing exams of the National University. Agitated students have warned of a nationwide crackdown if their demands are not met next Sunday.
Twenty students were detained in the capital from morning until noon yesterday. However, the police from Shahbagh Police Station released them in the afternoon. Shahbagh Police Station OC Mohammad Mamun Aur Rashid confirmed the matter and said the students had been questioned.
The exams for the second year of the 2019 National University approval and certification course and the exam for other final courses, including the 2017 Master’s final exam, were being taken. Suddenly these tests were postponed last Monday. Then the students started a movement demanding that the exams be completed in March. Meanwhile, university authorities have said that the postponed exam will begin on May 24. However, the students are inflexible in their demands.
Shahbagh Police arrested 10 Shahbagh students around 10:30 am. At this time the students were scattered. Later they took up position in front of the Shahbagh police station with the procession. The students were again dispersed after being chased by the police around 1:15 pm. They then protested on the sidewalk and the sidewalk in front of the Central Mosque of Dhaka University. Police arrested at least five more people from there.
Agitated students complained to journalists that they have come to protest with their logical demands as students. But the police do not give up. They also complained that the students were attacked.
Later, students from the TSC area of Dhaka University told reporters that they had a three-day ultimatum to comply with the demand. Their demands are two. The unveiling of the new routine of the ongoing exams in the last week of February or the first week of March and the unconditional release of the students detained by the movement’s police today (yesterday). They have warned of a nationwide crackdown if the demands are not met next Sunday. Students go out in the afternoon.
Motahar Hossain, a student, said: “If the demand is not accepted, the unrest will start across the country next Sunday. It is not a movement against any person or organization; It is a matter of our lives. That is why we are far behind. I can’t find any meaning in such talk about education. ‘
Earlier in the day, students from seven universities affiliated with the University of Dhaka organized a protest sit-in at Nilkhet and Science Laboratory until noon demanding the withdrawal of the suspension order. Subsequently, the Ministry of Education announced that they would continue with their examinations. A group of students from the National University held a protest on Thursday demanding the same.
Students have blocked the human chain, the protest procession and the road in Sylhet demanding the reopening of all educational institutions and the resumption of the postponed exams of the National University in compliance with health regulations. The students have also delivered a memorandum to the Minister of Education with the same demand.
The university suspended in a short time to take the test, schools opened yesterday afternoon, the police took the baton in a procession of students, including the demand for five points. At least seven people, including a journalist, were injured. Two policemen have been arrested in the incident. They are Deputy Inspector Sadequzzaman Bhuiyan and Sheriff Omar Farooq.
In Barisal, students began protesting blocking the street in front of Brajmohan College from 10am yesterday morning. Four hours later, the university director said. Agitated students have suspended the highways program under the Golam Kibria guarantee.
Students from Chittagong University (CU) have organized a human chain protest against the suspension of exams. They carried out a human chain in the Shaheed Minar area of the university at 12 noon yesterday. Later, Bangabandhu began to conduct sit-ins on the premises. However, the movement was suspended until Monday by guarantee of the authorities.
It is known that students from different parts of the country have moved to the university campus after the university authorities announced the date of the exam. Since the room is not open, the students are preparing for the exam by renting a house in the vicinity of the city, including Chittagong City. Suddenly, yesterday morning the decision to postpone the test was announced. The students were angry.
Regarding the postponement of the exam, CU (acting) registrar SM Monirul Islam told Kaler Kanth: “We are not willing to take the exam outside of the government’s decision.”
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